President Trump is looking into revoking the security clearances of several former high-level officials who’ve criticized him.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders read a list of officials being considered for revocation of their clearances on Monday and said the White House is “exploring the mechanisms” by which the government might take them away.
A number of former top national security officials have criticized Trump. Former CIA Director John Brennan, for example, said Trump’s failure to stand up for the U.S. intelligence community at the Helsinki summit was “nothing short of treasonous.”
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